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Daredevil Uses Two Airplanes and a Rolls-Royce To Pull Off Wild Stunt
Daredevil Uses Two Airplanes and a Rolls-Royce To Pull Off Wild Stunt

1 Jan 2024, 21:58 UTC · By: Florin Amariei / It's not every day that you see someone jumping over a jet's nose from the roof of a moving Rolls-Royce while another airplane flies above him

 
Gulfstream G550 Now Has One Million Landings to Its Name
Gulfstream G550 Now Has One Million Landings to Its Name

3 Aug 2023, 08:16 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Some 600 Gulfstream G550 airplanes managed to fly for 2.6 million hours and land one million times over the past two decades

 
Little Girl in Booster Seat Lands Jet Plane, Makes Dad Proud
Little Girl in Booster Seat Lands Jet Plane, Makes Dad Proud

13 Jul 2023, 15:12 UTC · By: Florin Amariei / If you require some inspiration, then look no further. Here's a kid who will most likely have enough experience to start working as a pilot at 17

 
Boeing Expects $8 Trillion Worth of Airplanes to Be Sold by 2042. That's 42,595 New Jets
Boeing Expects $8 Trillion Worth of Airplanes to Be Sold by 2042. That's 42,595 New Jets

20 Jun 2023, 14:10 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Aerospace giant published on the sidelines of the Paris Air Show the 2023 Commercial Market Outlook, data points to a lot of new planes being needed

 
Decades-Old MiG-15 Up for Grabs in Texas for Nissan Kicks Money, Machine Gun Included
Decades-Old MiG-15 Up for Grabs in Texas for Nissan Kicks Money, Machine Gun Included

5 Jun 2023, 08:08 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / A Texas-based museum is selling an almost seven decades-old MiG-15. It might not fly, it may be a trainer, but still comes with a machine gun

 
Swapping Standard Engines for Hydrogen Ones Is the Ultimate Aircraft Upgrade
Swapping Standard Engines for Hydrogen Ones Is the Ultimate Aircraft Upgrade

2 Jun 2023, 23:18 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / A company called ZeroAvia is working on a hydrogen engine that can simply be swapped with ones currently on airplanes, test flights already underway

 
NZ National Airline Will Weigh Passengers Before Allowing Them on Flights
NZ National Airline Will Weigh Passengers Before Allowing Them on Flights

1 Jun 2023, 05:18 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / The measure is part of a postponed survey for international flights with the purpose of improving load control onboard. It’s bound to cause outrage

 
Not Even a $6M Restoration Would Get Elvis Presley's Lockheed Jetstar Up in the Air Again
Not Even a $6M Restoration Would Get Elvis Presley's Lockheed Jetstar Up in the Air Again

6 Mar 2023, 12:52 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / Grounded for life due to government regulations, Elvis Presley's 1962 Lockheed Jetstar needs more than a million-dollar restoration to fly again.

 
Elvis Presley's 1962 Lockheed Private Jet Comes Back to Life After 40 Years
Elvis Presley's 1962 Lockheed Private Jet Comes Back to Life After 40 Years

1 Mar 2023, 14:59 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / Owned by "The King of Rock'n Roll" for a few months, this Lockheed Jetstar spent about four decades sitting in Roswell, New Mexico.

 
Titan-Bound Flying Boat Will Feed on Alien Liquids Through Its Wings
Titan-Bound Flying Boat Will Feed on Alien Liquids Through Its Wings

7 Feb 2023, 13:01 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / One of the 14 NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) grants of this year went to an idea of an amphibious airplane meant to collect liquids on Titan

 
The New LEGO Technic Firefighter Aircraft Will Pave the Way to Engineering for Your Kids
The New LEGO Technic Firefighter Aircraft Will Pave the Way to Engineering for Your Kids

14 Jan 2023, 14:56 UTC · By: Angela Balaciu / This LEGO set is a great gift to teach your kids how everything connects and works together, while still enjoying a few good hours of fun

 
Decommissioned Boeing 737 Gets New Lease on Life as Luxury Holiday Villa in Bali
Decommissioned Boeing 737 Gets New Lease on Life as Luxury Holiday Villa in Bali

13 Jan 2023, 17:22 UTC · By: Ancuta Iosub / Russian entrepreneur Felix Demin bought a derelict Boeing 737 and turned it into a two-bedroom, two-bathroom holiday rental

 
Going Once, Going Twice… Elvis Presley's 1962 Lockheed Private Jet Has Been Sold for $260K
Going Once, Going Twice… Elvis Presley's 1962 Lockheed Private Jet Has Been Sold for $260K

10 Jan 2023, 13:52 UTC · By: Mircea Mazuru / Even though Elvis has not been the owner of this private jet for a very long time, the interior is still finished in his fashion, with red velvet upholstery

 
747 Wing House Is How a Boeing 747 Became a Family Home and an International Star
747 Wing House Is How a Boeing 747 Became a Family Home and an International Star

27 Dec 2022, 14:52 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Designed and built by David Randall Hertz, Wing House is a brilliant example of regenerative design, with a focus on sustainability and “poetic” architecture

 
X-Plane 12 Gives You the Chance to Become a Virtual Pilot From the Comfort of Your Home
X-Plane 12 Gives You the Chance to Become a Virtual Pilot From the Comfort of Your Home

19 Dec 2022, 20:44 UTC · By: Dragos Chitulescu / You can now purchase X-Plane 12 via Steam or the creator of the game, and you can take to the skies in several different aircraft

 
Europe Will Have In-Flight 5G Connectivity, and It Might Not Be That Great
Europe Will Have In-Flight 5G Connectivity, and It Might Not Be That Great

10 Dec 2022, 16:22 UTC · By: Sebastian Toma / After so many years, we may get cellular connectivity in airplanes during flights, but only in the EU. Is this a good thing? I do not have my hopes up for this

 
Moose Is a Private Airplane Carrying Family of 5 on a 14-Month Vacation Around the World
Moose Is a Private Airplane Carrying Family of 5 on a 14-Month Vacation Around the World

21 Oct 2022, 05:34 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / A different kind of #vanlife: the Porters believe they’re the first family to take a trip like this around the world, and they’re doing it for a good cause too

 
Airbus A350F Coming in 2024, Livery Design Contest Now Open for All
Airbus A350F Coming in 2024, Livery Design Contest Now Open for All

4 Oct 2022, 06:25 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / European aerospace company Airbus opened a design competition for the livery that will make it on the promotional A350F cargo aircraft

 
World's Wildest 1955 Chevrolet Bel Air Has a 3,000-HP V12 Engine Under the Hood
World's Wildest 1955 Chevrolet Bel Air Has a 3,000-HP V12 Engine Under the Hood

19 Sep 2022, 15:23 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / The market is packed with restomodded Bel Airs powered by modern V8 engines, but this 1955 Tri-Five took the ridiculous path with an aircraft-spec V12

 
The ES-30 Electric Airplane by Heart Aerospace Has a New Design and Two New Shareholders
The ES-30 Electric Airplane by Heart Aerospace Has a New Design and Two New Shareholders

16 Sep 2022, 13:24 UTC · By: Angela Balaciu / Heart Aerospace is well focused on reducing airplane emissions by creating new airplanes with new greener technology making them more affordable